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WORLD COUNCIL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does world council mean?
• WORLD COUNCIL (noun)
The noun WORLD COUNCIL has 1 sense:
1. a council with representatives from different nations
Familiarity information: WORLD COUNCIL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A council with representatives from different nations
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("world council" is a kind of...):
council (a body serving in an administrative capacity)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "world council"):
World Council of Churches (an ecumenical organization of Protestant and eastern churches; intended to promote unity and cooperation in religious and secular matters)
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